Mobile Applications

BlueMetal, an Insight company and an interactive design and technology architecture firm, has been awarded the 2017 Microsoft Mobile App Development Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. BlueMetal and a global medical device manufacturer collaborated to build an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot on Microsoft Azure Bot Services, which uses predictive analytics to make suggestions and encourage patients to make healthy choices.It also offers access to a wealth of critical health information through text and verbal commands. The real-time adaptive learning has significantly enhanced patient engagement and can help improve health outcomes. The chatbot blends BlueMetal's Real-Time Business Platform with Microsoft Cognitive Services - Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) and the Visu...

From July 1 Indian government is introducing a new tax regime called GST The reform - many years in the making - is short for Goods and Services Tax GST is a single, nationwide tax replacing a complicated mix of state and federal taxes and will change the cost of nearly everything people buy The reform involves moving all good into four main GST rate bands 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent and 28 per cent The move is likely to boost government revenues and the country's credit rating  GST will unify 1.3 billion people into one of the world's biggest common markets  Although trying to understand all the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) variables is a complicated task, think twice before downloading one of the many smartphone apps promising to simplify the task. Cyber experts have raised the alarm over apps that claim to assist in calculating or filing GST returns. Security agencies asserted that market is ...

The Moneycontrol app offers the latest market data, business and markets news coverage as well as Live TV with ‘Audio only’ and ‘Video on Demand’ features. M oneycontrol News India’s number one financial news platform Moneycontrol has bagged the “Best Mobile App for Business” award at the prestigious GSMA Asia Mobile Awards 2017 at the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai. Commenting on the win, Manish Maheshwari, CEO Network18 Digital said: “It is a moment of pride for us at moneycontrol.com to have made the significant jump from being India’s No.1 finance app to now, being recognised as a leading business app in all of Asia. Our vision is to serve as the disruptors in the segment and continuously deliver breakthrough content and user experience. We look forward to keep the momentum going to achieve new milestones in the field.” The Moneycontrol app was awarded for innovation, design, capabilities, customisation options, user experience, ease of use and reliability ...

“Most people think when they send money in those apps it goes right away. The notification goes but it usually takes two or three days to wind through the old systems that are in place,” Zelle spokesman Greg Jawski said. “Zelle will take all that away. Money will be available instantly.” Like many third-party services, there’s no cost to send or receive money with Zelle. The Zelle platform was built by Early Warning Services, an Arizona-based company that has long been a leader in fraud prevention and monitoring. What really sets the system apart, though, is the buy-in it has from banks. Among those participating are JP Morgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank; Bank of America; Citizens Bank; Fifth Third Bank; KeyBank; PNC Bank; U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo. All together, Zelle says the service will be available to more than 86 million U.S. mobile banking consumers over the next year. Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bank was one of the first to roll out the service, ...

YIWU, China -- Yiwugou.com, the official website of the Yiwu Commodity Market (YCM), which is the largest commodity wholesale market in the world, announced that the GMV on Yiwugou mobile app has surpassed that of the website in the past 6 months. The service is especially popular among small and medium-sized buyers (SMB) who prefer to place orders directly on the mobile app. It is evident that Yiwugou.com has kept up with the trend of mobile commerce with its mobile app strategy. The recent launching of the English version of the Yiwugou app further facilitates overseas buyers to communicate with Yiwugou suppliers. Riding with the Tide of Mobile Internet Mary Meeker, the "Queen of Internet", delivered a 2017 internet trends report recently, highlighting the growth of mobile internet in China with over 700 million users in 2016 versus 100 million in 2008. Riding with the tide of mobile internet, Yiwugou started to develop the mobile app, aiming to bridge the gap between supp...

With the release of iOS 11’s latest beta on Wednesday, testers can now get their hands on one of the new mobile operating system’s most important — if not most glamorous — new features: a long-needed “Do Not Disturb While Driving” mode. Announced in June at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, the feature aims to combat the very dangerous practice of texting from behind the wheel, while also switching off other alerts that entice people to look at their phones while driving. Distracted driving has become a national safety crisis because of the rise of smartphones. According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation, 10 percent of fatal crashes, 15 percent of injury crashes and 14 percent of all police-reported motor vehicle traffic crashes were attributed to distracted driving — a blanket term that broadly encompasses cell phone use, as well as other in-car activity like adjusting the radio or climate controls, for example. In 2015, 3,477 people were ...